Amadeus Awards 2014
The 14th presentation of the Amadeus Austrian Music Award took place on May 6, 2014 in the Volkstheater in Vienna .
Nomination and election
Musicians and bands or their publications that came onto the market between January 1 and December 31, 2013 or had at least one live performance could be nominated. The prerequisite was that the artists had their center of life in Austria or were Austrian citizens. On February 24, 2014, the Association of the Austrian Music Industry ( IFPI ) announced the nominations. Five candidates in each category were presented to the public on the Amadeus Awards website. The winners were then determined in an online voting on the Amadeus Awards internet platform that lasted up to and including March 31. The only exceptions were the FM4 Award, which was determined by the broadcaster FM4 in its own voting, and the two special prizes.
Awards were given in 15 categories. The Best Video category was new this year . Instead, the award in the Alternative genre was dropped . The pop / rock category was converted into a pure pop music category, rock was merged with hard & heavy . In addition to the eleven specific categories and the FM4 listener award, there are three special awards: the award for life's work awarded by the organizing IFPI , the award for the music partner of the year and the award for the best engineered album , an award for the technicians in the background which was awarded for the second time after 2013.
Cancellation by artist
After the nominations were announced and the online voting began, several musicians and bands declared that they would not be nominated or asked the organizers to remove them from the list of nominees. The focus of the criticism was on how the organizers and their media partners deal with musicians and how the voting was carried out.
In February 2014, HVOB ( Her Voice Over Boys ), nominated in the Electronic / Dance by KroneHit category , declared in an open letter that they would not value a nomination in this form. In particular, the musicians rejected the voting mode, because votes could only be cast on the website of the radio station KroneHit and interested parties had to give their email address or their Facebook login details (“We don't want a price in a category who sees their most important task in satisfying the clumsiest marketing needs of a partner [...] We are particularly embarrassed to be abused for tapping the email addresses of people who like our music so much that they want to vote for us. ”) The organizers declared that they regretted and accepted the band's renunciation and the need for media partnerships in order to“ make bands better known to the broadest possible audience ”. It was announced that voting, as in other categories, would also be made possible on the Amadeus Awards website itself. The Global Deejays took the place of HVOB among the nominees . Shortly afterwards, Naked Lunch announced that they were not interested in a nomination. On the one hand they were amused by the assignment to the Rock / Hard & Heavy category , on the other hand they were annoyed by the incorrect band biography on the Amadeus website. At the beginning of March the rapper Monobrother (category HipHop / R'n'B ) announced his renunciation because he received the Amadeus Award as a "consolation prize for all the broken promises and unmotivated, bumpy attempts [...] to make this completely rotten Austrian music landscape a little more bearable to design ”and participation would be“ a general agreement with the current conditions - the voracious tactics and practices of this destructive and ignorant music market machinery ”, which he cannot agree with. He also criticized his media partners, with the exception of the radio station FM4 and its program "Tribe Vibes", which otherwise ignore him and his music. No withdrawal, but disinterest, explained the rapper Chakuza .
event
The award ceremony was moderated by Manuel Rubey . The artists who created the musical framework program on May 6th included Anna F. , Die Fantastischen Vier , Mando Diao , Bilderbuch , 5 / 8erl in Ehr'n & Friends, Jennifer Rostock & Gerard, Thomas David , Hannah and Como .
Award winners and nominees
Album of the year
- I listen to my heart from Christina Stürmer
Other nominees:
- The Art of Sampling by Parov Stelar
- Home Sweet Home by Andreas Gabalier
- High 2 of RAF 3.0
- Zeitgeist from Camo & Krooked
Song of the year
- DNA by Anna F.
Other nominees:
- Able by Thomas David
- Get It Right by Left Boy
- Machine from picture book
- Suitcase from Como
Best video
- Some days from Nazar
Other nominees:
- Cold Hands from Velojet
- Get It Right by Left Boy
- Machine from picture book
- Notice from the Steaming Satellites
Electronic / dance
Other nominees:
- Camo & Krooked
- Global Deejays were nominated after the HVOB waiver
- HVOB waived the nomination
- Rene Rodrigezz
- Tosca
Rock / Hard & Heavy
Other nominees:
- Picture book
- Chaos Beyond
- Naked Lunch waived the nomination
- Serenity
HipHop / R'n'B
Other nominees:
- Chakuza
- Gerard MC
- Monobrother waived the nomination
- Texta
pop
Other nominees:
Folk music
Other nominees:
Bat
Other nominees:
Jazz / World / Blues
Other nominees:
Best Live Act
Other nominees:
FM4 Award
In a first round, five finalists were selected from 20 candidates by February 23. The winner could then be voted on the FM4 website up to and including April 1st .
Award winners
Further finalists:
Other nominees:
- Cid Rim
- Effi
- Farewell Dear Ghost
- Fijuka
- Francis International Airport
- Gerard MC
- Ghost Capsules
- Gin Ga
- Hella Comet
- HVOB
- Koenigleopold
- Salute
- Sex jams
- Velojet
- creature
Special awards
Life's work
Music partner of the year
- Eberhard Forcher for the YouTube channel Austrozone
Best engineered album
- Georg Tomandl and Mischa Janisch for the album One by One by Coshiva
Web links
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- ↑ Amadeus Austrian Music Awards: The 2014 nominations , Vienna online, February 24, 2014
- ↑ The Gap : Amadeus. Kind of obituary , March 6, 2014
- ↑ volume.at: HVOB: Not in the mood for Amadeus Austrian Music Awards , February 26, 2014
- ↑ Die Presse : HVOB do not want to be nominated for "Amadeus" , February 26, 2014
- ↑ a b Der Standard : "Amadeus" Award: With Monobrother, third act withdraws , March 3, 2014
- ↑ Naked Lunch on Facebook : We and the nomination for the Amadeus Awards in the category 'Rock / Hard'n'Heavy' , February 27, 2014
- ↑ The FM4 Award 2014 , ORF, February 4, 2014
- ↑ Amadeus 2014: Stefanie Werger receives Lifetime Achievement Award ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Michael Vorteilel, Musikmarkt, April 16, 2014